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->''My name is Thomas Veil, or at least it was. I'm a photographer, I had it all: a wife, Alyson... friends, a career. In one moment it was all taken away, all because of a single photograph. I have it, they want it, and they will do anything to get the negative. I'm keeping this diary as proof that these events are real... I know they are... they have to be..."
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* BaitAndSwitch: In a small town, Veil meets a man claiming to be the father who abandoned the family 20 years earlier. Between evidence of plastic surgery and a lack of mementos from his past, Veil naturally assumes this is another Conspiracy trick. It turns out this really is his father as the reason he had to leave was he got in deep with the mob and was trying to keep the family safe, eventually finding a new life for himself.
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* OneDialogueTwoConversations: In "Father," Veil is convinced the man claiming to be his dad is a Conspiracy agent. He's tracked by some suited men, talking of how this was an easy trap and "you want the negatives" when they demand to know who his dad is. Eventually, it hits Tom that these are mobsters out to get back a "loan."
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* MindReformatDeath: Happens to a genius recluse who is wildly intelligent about Virtual Reality systems. When Thomas and the recluse get in touch with the recluse's former computer instructor, who helps them. To hack into the website server of the conspiracy, they don their VR headsets, and literally crawl through tunnels (in the VR world) to get to said server. Unfortunately, their presence is detected, and someone starts to erase the server, represented by expanding physical static. The computer genius is caught in the wake of the deletion, and decides to stay behind to let Thomas live and return to the real world. When he returns, the computer genius is now a catatonic vegetable.
-->'''Pam Peterson (the computer teacher):''' I think he's still in there... When the system went down, he went with it.
-->'''Pam Peterson (the computer teacher):''' I think he's still in there... When the system went down, he went with it.
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** Lampshaded when Thomas meets a man (Dean Stockwell) (Creator/DeanStockwell) who's been on the run from the group for 30 years and openly says it's all a big game and "just when you think you're about to get the truth, they yank it away from you."
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** A Christmas themed episode has Thomas seemingly exonerated by the conspiracy taken down [[spoiler: his wife back with him, claiming to have been blackmailed into going along with it and his mother healthy. Naturally, it's all one huge scam.]]
** The penultimate episode has him waking up and told [[spoiler: he's been in a coma dreaming all this with his best friend (supposedly killed in the pilot) alive. Of course, it's another trick.]]
** Lampshaded when Thomas meets a man (Dean Stockwell) who's been on the run from the group for 30 years and openly says it's all a big game and "just when you think you're about to get the truth, they yank it away from you."
** The penultimate episode has him waking up and told [[spoiler: he's been in a coma dreaming all this with his best friend (supposedly killed in the pilot) alive. Of course, it's another trick.]]
** Lampshaded when Thomas meets a man (Dean Stockwell) who's been on the run from the group for 30 years and openly says it's all a big game and "just when you think you're about to get the truth, they yank it away from you."
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* {{Defictionalization}}: At one point, Thomas gets a handheld computer which would be ridiculously high tech in the Nineties but is the kind we have now.
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* {{Homage}}: The town full of erased people is a pretty obvious one to ''Series/ThePrisoner''.
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* {{Homage}}: The town full of erased people is a pretty obvious one to ''Series/ThePrisoner''.''Series/{{The Prisoner|1967}}''.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Photo negatives (and film photography in general) are nowhere near as common today as they were when this show was made.
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* TheEndingChangesEverything: [[spoiler: The knowledge Thomas Veil doesn't exist ala Quaid in Film/TotalRecall and it was all a set up is certainly a game changer.]]
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* MysteriousInformant: Partway through the series one of the members of the conspiracy starts giving Tom info on the Organization who "erased him" in hopes Tom will take them down from without so he can more easily take them down from within.
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* MysteriousInformant: Partway through the series one of the members of the conspiracy starts giving Tom info on the Organization who "erased him" in hopes Tom will take them down from without so he can more easily take them down from within. [[spoiler: He's eventually killed and Thomas' computer hacked.]]
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* FakeMemories: The Conspiracy often plays with the sense of reality of people via {{Gaslighting}}. [[spoiler: Thomas Veil never existed, for example.]]
** Later, it's implied the organization is a corporate/media/industrial firm that works more or less like TheIlluminati.
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The noirish action of ''Nowhere Man'' may or may not be taking place entirely in the mind of its hero, Thomas Veil (BruceGreenwood), a photojournalist specializing in stark, brutal war shots. In the first episode, Veil attends a showing of his work, which includes "Hidden Agenda," a disturbing photo of American military personnel apparently presiding over an execution in an unnamed Third World country. Almost immediately upon its display, Veil's life is ... destroyed. Erased. Zeroed. [[UnPerson Un-Personed]]. He becomes a fugitive non-person, on the run from the mysterious forces that want the "Hidden Agenda" photo destroyed and forgotten.
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The noirish action of ''Nowhere Man'' may or may not be taking place entirely in the mind of its hero, Thomas Veil (BruceGreenwood), (Creator/BruceGreenwood), a photojournalist specializing in stark, brutal war shots. In the first episode, Veil attends a showing of his work, which includes "Hidden Agenda," a disturbing photo of American military personnel apparently presiding over an execution in an unnamed Third World country. Almost immediately upon its display, Veil's life is ... destroyed. Erased. Zeroed. [[UnPerson Un-Personed]]. He becomes a fugitive non-person, on the run from the mysterious forces that want the "Hidden Agenda" photo destroyed and forgotten.
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** Veil soon discovers he's not the only one this has happened to. Indeed, he finds an entire town full of people who have suffered this fate.
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* ChristmasEpisode: It's nearly Christmas when Tom sees a newspaper reporting that the FBI are looking for him to testify. His family welcomes him back for the holiday and everything seems to have been a mistake. [[spoiler: [[YankTheDogsChain Then he finds the house has been turned over by his wife, looking for the negatives. He takes them from the hiding place]] [[StatusQuoIsGod and goes back on the run.]]]]
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* ChristmasEpisode: It's nearly Christmas when Tom sees a newspaper reporting that the FBI are looking for him to testify. His family welcomes him back for the holiday and everything seems to have been a mistake. [[spoiler: [[YankTheDogsChain Then he finds the house has been turned over by his wife, looking for the negatives. He also finds a video tape showing the "newscasts" of the conspiracy taken down were just a bunch of actors filming what they thought was a movie. He takes them the negatives from the hiding place]] [[StatusQuoIsGod and goes back on the run.]]]]
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* PostModernism / {{Recursive Canon}}: One of the Conspiracy's plots involves broadcasting a television show that depicts scenes from Veil's life after his erasure with almost shot-for-shot recreations of the actual show, but with {{StylisticSuck|bad acting and camera work}}. It got to the point of a {{Mind Screw}} where he had to do things out of character in order to defeat their plans.
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* PostModernism / {{Recursive Canon}}: One of the Conspiracy's plots involves broadcasting a television show that depicts scenes from Veil's life after his erasure with almost shot-for-shot recreations of the actual show, but with {{StylisticSuck|bad [[StylisticSuck bad acting and camera work}}.work]]. It got to the point of a {{Mind Screw}} where he had to do things out of character in order to defeat their plans.
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* PostModernism / {{Recursive Canon}}: One of the Conspiracy's plots involves broadcasting a television show that depicts scenes from Veil's life after his erasure with almost shot-for-shot recreations of the actual show, but with [[Stylistic suck|bad {{StylisticSuck|bad acting and camera work]]. work}}. It got to the point of a {{Mind Screw} Screw}} where he had to do things out of character in order to defeat their plans.
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* XMeetsY: Some fans describe this show as ''Series/TheFugitive'' meets ''Series/ThePrisoner''.
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* XMeetsY: Some fans describe this show as ''Series/TheFugitive'' meets ''Series/ThePrisoner''.''[[Series/ThePrisoner1967 The Prisoner]]''.
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-->''My name is Thomas Veil, or at least it was. I'm a photographer, I had it all: a wife, Alyson... friends, a career. In one moment it was all taken away, all because of a single photograph. I have it, they want it, and they will do anything to get the negative. I'm keeping this diary as proof that these events are real... I know they are... they have to be..."
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The series had Veil {{walking the earth}}, dealing with often disturbing happenings throughout middle America which were probably caused by the same organization that was targeting him, although hard truths were difficult to come by on this show, and the viewer was often left with a sense of uncertainty which mirrored Veil's own.
The series had Veil {{walking the earth}}, dealing with often disturbing happenings throughout middle America which were probably caused by the same organization that was targeting him, although hard truths were difficult to come by on this show, and the viewer was often left with a sense of uncertainty which mirrored Veil's own.
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The noirish action of ''Nowhere Man'' may or may not be taking place entirely in the mind of its hero, Thomas Veil (BruceGreenwood), a photojournalist specializing in stark, brutal war shots. In the first episode, Veil attends a showing of his work, which includes "Hidden Agenda," a disturbing photo of American military personnel apparently presiding over an execution in an unnamed Third World country. Almost immediately upon its display, Veil's life is ... destroyed. Erased. Zeroed. {{Un Person}}ed.[[UnPerson Un-Personed]]. He becomes a fugitive non-person, on the run from the mysterious forces that want the "Hidden Agenda" photo destroyed and forgotten.
The serieshad has Veil {{walking the earth}}, dealing with often disturbing happenings throughout middle America which were probably caused by the same organization that was is targeting him, although hard truths were are difficult to come by on this show, and the viewer was is often left with a sense of uncertainty which mirrored mirrors Veil's own.
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A classic example of a show that was TooGoodToLast, the series may have aired too near in time to ''TheXFiles'', ''Series/TheXFiles'', which had absorbed a great deal of the audience's thirst for this kind of story.
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->''My name is Thomas Veil, or at least it was. I'm a photographer, I had it all: a wife, Alyson... friends, a career. In one moment it was all taken away, all because of a single photograph. I have it, they want it, and they will do anything to get the negative. I'm keeping this diary as proof that these events are real... I know they are... they have to be..."
->''My name is Thomas Veil, or at least it was. I'm a photographer, I had it all: a wife, Alyson... friends, a career. In one moment it was all taken away, all because of a single photograph. I have it, they want it, and they will do anything to get the negative. I'm keeping this diary as proof that these events are real... I know they are... they have to be..."
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->''My name is Thomas Veil, or at least it was. I'm a photographer, I had it all: a wife, Alyson... friends, a career. In one moment it was all taken away, all because of a single photograph. I have it, they want it, and they will do anything to get the negative. I'm keeping this diary as proof that these events are real... I know they are... they have to be..."
The noirish action of ''Nowhere Man'' may or may not be taking place entirely in the mind of its hero, Thomas Veil (BruceGreenwood), a photojournalist specializing in stark, brutal war shots. In the first episode, Veil attends a showing of his work, which includes "Hidden Agenda," a disturbing photo of American military personnel apparently presiding over an execution in an unnamed Third World country. Almost immediately upon its display, Veil's life is ... destroyed. Erased. Zeroed. {{Un Person}}ed. He becomes a fugitive non-person, on the run from the mysterious forces that want the "Hidden Agenda" photo destroyed and forgotten.
The series had Veil {{walking the earth}}, dealing with often disturbing happenings throughout middle America which were probably caused by the same organization that was targeting him, although hard truths were difficult to come by on this show, and the viewer was often left with a sense of uncertainty which mirrored Veil's own.
A classic example of a show that was too good to last, the series may have aired too near in time to ''TheXFiles'', which had absorbed a great deal of the audience's thirst for this kind of story.
Not to be confused with the song by Music/TheBeatles.
Note: in some cases below even the trope names can be spoilers.
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* AdventureTowns
* CyberPunk
* ChristmasEpisode: It's nearly Christmas when Tom sees a newspaper reporting that the FBI are looking for him to testify. His family welcomes him back for the holiday and everything seems to have been a mistake. [[spoiler: [[YankTheDogsChain Then he finds the house has been turned over by his wife, looking for the negatives. He takes them from the hiding place]] [[StatusQuoIsGod and goes back on the run.]]]]
* DramaticHourLong
* TheEndingChangesEverything
* {{Executive Meddling}}: The multi-episode arc involving [[spoiler: a member of the Conspiracy turning on them and supplying Tom with a laptop detailing various conspiracy operations]] was apparently the result of this.
* EvilPlan: Everything in the series Thomas Veil goes through is part of the Conspiracy's scheme to [[spoiler: test their FakeMemories treatment.]]
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption
* {{Fake Memories}}
* GovernmentConspiracy
* {{Homage}}: The town full of erased people is a pretty obvious one to ThePrisoner.
* IronicEcho: [[spoiler: "My name is Thomas Veil"]]
* LossOfIdentity
* {{Meaningful Name}}: Thomas ''Veil''
* MysteriousInformant: Partway through the series one of the members of the conspiracy starts giving Tom info on the Organization who "erased him" in hopes Tom will take them down from within.
* MundaneDogmatic
* OntologicalMystery: Of a sort.
* {{Post Modernism}}: One of the Conspiracy's plots involved randomly broadcasting a television show that depicted scenes from Veil's life after his erasure.
* SternChase
* UnPerson
* WasItAllALie: Tom asks this question of [[spoiler: his wife who was seemingly in on the conspiracy from day one.]]
* XMeetsY: Some fans describe this show as ''Series/TheFugitive'' meets ''ThePrisoner''.
* YankTheDogsChain
* WalkingTheEarth
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->''My name is Thomas Veil, or at least it was. I'm a photographer, I had it all: a wife, Alyson... friends, a career. In one moment it was all taken away, all because of a single photograph. I have it, they want it, and they will do anything to get the negative. I'm keeping this diary as proof that these events are real... I know they are... they have to be..."
The noirish action of ''Nowhere Man'' may or may not be taking place entirely in the mind of its hero, Thomas Veil (BruceGreenwood), a photojournalist specializing in stark, brutal war shots. In the first episode, Veil attends a showing of his work, which includes "Hidden Agenda," a disturbing photo of American military personnel apparently presiding over an execution in an unnamed Third World country. Almost immediately upon its display, Veil's life is ... destroyed. Erased. Zeroed. {{Un Person}}ed. He becomes a fugitive non-person, on the run from the mysterious forces that want the "Hidden Agenda" photo destroyed and forgotten.
The series had Veil {{walking the earth}}, dealing with often disturbing happenings throughout middle America which were probably caused by the same organization that was targeting him, although hard truths were difficult to come by on this show, and the viewer was often left with a sense of uncertainty which mirrored Veil's own.
A classic example of a show that was too good to last, the series may have aired too near in time to ''TheXFiles'', which had absorbed a great deal of the audience's thirst for this kind of story.
Not to be confused with the song by Music/TheBeatles.
Note: in some cases below even the trope names can be spoilers.
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!!This show provides examples of:
* AdventureTowns
* CyberPunk
* ChristmasEpisode: It's nearly Christmas when Tom sees a newspaper reporting that the FBI are looking for him to testify. His family welcomes him back for the holiday and everything seems to have been a mistake. [[spoiler: [[YankTheDogsChain Then he finds the house has been turned over by his wife, looking for the negatives. He takes them from the hiding place]] [[StatusQuoIsGod and goes back on the run.]]]]
* DramaticHourLong
* TheEndingChangesEverything
* {{Executive Meddling}}: The multi-episode arc involving [[spoiler: a member of the Conspiracy turning on them and supplying Tom with a laptop detailing various conspiracy operations]] was apparently the result of this.
* EvilPlan: Everything in the series Thomas Veil goes through is part of the Conspiracy's scheme to [[spoiler: test their FakeMemories treatment.]]
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption
* {{Fake Memories}}
* GovernmentConspiracy
* {{Homage}}: The town full of erased people is a pretty obvious one to ThePrisoner.
* IronicEcho: [[spoiler: "My name is Thomas Veil"]]
* LossOfIdentity
* {{Meaningful Name}}: Thomas ''Veil''
* MysteriousInformant: Partway through the series one of the members of the conspiracy starts giving Tom info on the Organization who "erased him" in hopes Tom will take them down from within.
* MundaneDogmatic
* OntologicalMystery: Of a sort.
* {{Post Modernism}}: One of the Conspiracy's plots involved randomly broadcasting a television show that depicted scenes from Veil's life after his erasure.
* SternChase
* UnPerson
* WasItAllALie: Tom asks this question of [[spoiler: his wife who was seemingly in on the conspiracy from day one.]]
* XMeetsY: Some fans describe this show as ''Series/TheFugitive'' meets ''ThePrisoner''.
* YankTheDogsChain
* WalkingTheEarth
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